Prof. Robert L. Boyd

Department of Sociology

Mississippi State University, USA

Full Professor

Email: boyd@soc.msstate.edu

Qualifications

1989 Ph.D., Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

1986 M.A., Sociology, University of Florida, USA

1981 B.B.A., Human Resources Management, Florida Atlantic University, USA

Publications (selected)

1. “Ethnic-Group Differences in Retail Enterprise: The Late Nineteenth-Century United States.” Sociological Perspectives (in press).
2. “The ‘Dream of Black Metropolis’ in the Early Twentieth-Century United States: Racial Segregation, Regional Location, and Black Population Size.” Sociological Spectrum 35 (2015): 271-285.
3. “Self-employment and Public Emergency Work in Urban Labor Markets during the Great Depression: The Case of Industrial Cities.” Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare 42 (2015): 121-139.
4. “The ‘Black Metropolis’ in the American Urban System of the Early Twentieth Century: Harlem, Bronzeville, and Beyond.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 39 (2015): 129-144.
   Featured as the inaugural “Editor’s Choice paper” on the journal’s website.
5. “Mixed Economy in the Entrepreneurial Sphere? Wholesale and Retail Enterprise among Ethnic Groups in the Late Nineteenth Century United States.” Sociological Spectrum 34 (2014): 510-525.
6. “Retail and Wholesale Enterprise among Ethnic Groups in Core and Peripheral Urban Centers: the Late Nineteenth-Century United States.” Urban Geography 35 (2014): 454-470.
7. “The Great Migration to the North and the ‘Black Metropolis’ of the Early Twentieth Century: A Reevaluation of the Role of Black Community Size.” The Social Science Journal 51 (2014): 6-11.
8. “Beyond Urban Economies: Retail Enterprise among Immigrant Groups in the Hinterlands of the United States in the Late Nineteenth Century.” Regional Studies 47 (2013): 1523-1533.
9. “Black Women in the ‘Black Metropolis’ of the Early Twentieth Century: The Case of Professional Occupations.” Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare 40 (2013): 103-117.
10. “Regionalism, Urbanism, and Participation in the Ministry: Blacks in the Southern United States in the Early Twentieth Century.” The Social Science Journal 49 (2012): 255-262.
11. “Race, Self-Employment, and Labor Absorption: Black and White Women in Domestic Service in the Urban South during the Great Depression.” The American Journal of Economics and Sociology 71 (2012): 639-661.
12. “The Organization of an Ethnic Economy: Urban Black Communities in the Early Twentieth Century.” Journal of Socio-Economics 41 (2012): 633-641.
13. “The ‘Black Metropolis’ Revisited: A Comparative Analysis of Northern and Southern Cities in the United States in the Early Twentieth Century.” Urban Studies 49 (2012): 845-860.
    Voted by the Editors of Urban Studies as the “Urban Studies Best Article for 2012.”
14. “The Suppression Hypothesis Reconsidered: Competition Between Blacks and White Immigrants in the Retail Trade in Northern Cities, 1910-1930.” The American Journal of Economics and Sociology 71 (2012): 126-150.
15. “Trends in the Occupations of Eminent Black Entrepreneurs in the United States.”Journal of Socio-Economics 37 (2008):2390-2398.
16. “New York, Chicago, and the ‘Black Metropolis’ of the Early Twentieth Century.” Urban Geography 32 (2011):1066-1083. Migration.”Sociological Inquiry 78 (2008): 290-309.
17. “Competition and Coexistence in the Urban Economy: Native Whites, European Immigrants, and the Retail Trade in the Late Nineteenth Century United States.” Sociological Focus 44 (2011): 37-54.
18. “The Northern ‘Black Metropolis’ of the Early Twentieth Century: A Reappraisal.” Sociological Inquiry 81 (2011): 88-109.
19. “Black Retail Enterprise and Racial Segregation in Northern Cities Before the ‘Ghetto.’” Sociological Perspectives 53 (2010): 397-417.
20. “Ethnic Shopkeepers in U.S. Cities in the Late Nineteenth Century.” Sociological Spectrum 30 (2010): 317-337.
21. “Depletion of the South’s Human Capital: The Case of Eminent Black Entrepreneurs.” Southeastern Geographer 49 (2009): 251-266.
22. “Urban Locations of Eminent Black Entrepreneurs in the United States.” Urban Studies 46 (2009): 2061-2078.
23. “Trends in the Occupations of Eminent Black Entrepreneurs in the United States.” Journal of Socio-Economics 37 (2008): 2390-2398.
24. “Too Many Preachers? Black Participation in the Ministry in Northern U.S. Cities during the Great Migration.” Sociological Inquiry 78 (2008): 290-309.
25. “Residential Segregation by Race in Cities and the Employment of Blacks in Insurance Occupations during the Early Twentieth Century.” Journal of Socio-Economics 37 (2008): 757-766.
26. “Retail Enterprise on the U.S. Urban Periphery: The Role of Immigrant Ethnic Groups in the Late 19th Century.” Urban Geography 28 (2007): 682-701.
27. “Historically Black Colleges and Universities and the Black Business Elite.” Sociological Perspectives 50 (2007): 545-560.
28. “Transformation of the Black Business Elite.” Social Science Quarterly 87 (2006): 602-617.
29. “Was the Ministry an Ethnic Niche for Urban Blacks in the Early Twentieth Century?” The Social Science Journal 43 (2006): 335-342.
30. “Black Musicians in Northern U.S. Cities during the Early 20th Century: A Test of the Critical Mass Hypothesis of Urban Sub-culture Theory.” Urban Studies 42 (2005): 2363-2370.
31. “Black and White Farm Operators in the South During the Great Depression.” Sociological Spectrum 25 (2005): 403-416.
32. “Race, Gender, and Survivalist Entrepreneurship in Large Northern Cities during the Great Depression.” Journal of Socio-Economics 34 (2005): 331-339.
33. “Minority Enterprise and the ‘Supportive Community Hypothesis’: An Exploratory Analysis of Businesses Owned by Asian and Hispanic Women” (Robert L. Boyd and Andrea E. Smith-Hunter). The International Journal of Business and Public Administration 2 (2005): 8-19.

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Last updated: 2015-07-02